Ability:   Behind an able man here are always other able men. (Chinese Proverb)   As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. (Froude, Short studies on great subjects)    We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Longfellow)    Ability is of little account without opportunity. (Napoleon)   They are able because they think they are able. (Vergil, Aeneid)

Absence:   Absence makes the heart grow fonder. (Thomas Haynes Bayly)    Absent in body but present in spirit. (I Corinthians)   Achilles absent was Achilles still. (Homer, Hiad)   Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. (Propertius, Elegiae)

Acquaintance:   A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. (Anonymous) Sudden acquaintance brings repentance. (Thomas Fuller)    If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. (Alexander Smith)

Acting:   The most difficult character in comedy is that of fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Cervantes)   When an actor has money, he doesn’t send letters but telegrams. (Anton Chekhov)   The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. (Samuel Johnson)   The play’s the thing. (Shakespeare, Hamlet.)

Action:    Let us do or die. (Burns)   Did nothing in particular And did it very well (W. S. Gilbert)   He started to sing as he tackled the thin That couldn’t be done, and he did it. (Edgar A. Guest)   Do well and right let the world sink. (Herbert)   Trust no future, however Pleasanbt! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in living present! Heart within and God overhead. (Longfellow)    Let us be up and doing, with a heart for any fact; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. (Longfellow)   Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. (Lowell)   He nothing common did, or mean, upon that memorable scene. (Marvel)    Go and do thou likewise. (Luke X) So much to do, so little done. (Cecil Rhodes)   Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided, act promptly. (Sallust)   He that is overcautious will accomplish little. (Schiller)   What is done can’t be undone. (Shakespeare)    Heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act. (Sophocles)   Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to make why, Theirs but to do and die. (Tennyson)   Out of strain of the doing, into the peace of the done. (Julia woodruff)